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Cristián Sánchez
Santiago
Luis Cristián Sánchez Garfias (Santiago, June 19, 1951) is a Chilean director, screenwriter and film scholar. He studied, like several other filmmakers of his generation, at the…
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Luis Cristián Sánchez Garfias (Santiago, June 19, 1951) is a Chilean director, screenwriter and film scholar. He studied, like several other filmmakers of his generation, at the School of Communication Arts of the Universidad Católica before the dictatorship. His films, all low-budget, have generally had little public diffusion, both because of their airtight content and because of the scarce support in the official distribution circuits. They have, however, enjoyed a positive reception at international festivals in Havana, Berlin, Biarritz and Nantes. It can be said that their cinema is "underground"; it is, in their own words, "a cinema of affective image, or of image-pulsion, in the manner of Buñuel". In his work he seeks to reveal "mythical relationships", since, in his opinion, "to reach a higher degree of complexity, cinema must deal with myth". He proclaims his affinity with what Raúl Ruiz does, although he differentiates himself from him - he says - because his cinema "is baroque" while his is more inclined towards an "asceticism of the image, and a more classical structure, of linear narration".
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2026
Hidden Currents
Movie Director
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2026
The Invisible Land
Movie Director
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2025
The Holy Office
Movie Director
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2025
Esperando a Godoy
Movie Director
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2025
The Inner Flame
Movie Director
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2024
With the Feet on the Ground
Movie Director
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2023
Voy y vuelvo
Movie Director
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2020
Take a Spin in the Air
Movie Screenplay
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2020
La promesa del retorno
Movie Director
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2015
Tiempos malos
Movie Executive Producer
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2012
Solita camino
TV show Executive Producer
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2011
El paso del héroe y el círculo de los deseos
Movie Director
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2003
Camino de sangre
Movie Director
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1998
Cautiverio feliz
Movie Director
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1995
Cuídate del agua mansa
Movie Writer
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1994
El cumplimiento del deseo
Movie Executive Producer
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1988
Der Radfahrer von San Cristóbal
Movie Assistant Director
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1984
El otro round
Movie Writer
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1982
Los deseos concebidos
Movie Editor
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1979
The Chinese Shoe
Movie Director
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1978
Así hablaba Astorquiza
Movie Director
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1975
Vías paralelas
Movie Director
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1975
Marihuana
Movie Writer
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1974
La Ermita del Socorro
Movie Director
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1971
Cosita
Movie Director
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1968
New Love
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